... disap-pointing results ofjoint learning on syntacticand semantic parsing, Miller et al. (2000) and Finkel and Manning (2009) showed the effectiveness of joint learning on syntacticparsingand some simple ... explore jointsyntacticand se-mantic parsing to improve the performance of both syntacticandsemantic parsing, in particular that ofsemantic parsing. Evaluation shows that our integrated parsing ... to semanticparsing but also al-lows useful information from semanticparsing to be carried backward to syntactic parsing. This paper explores joint learning ofsyntactic and semantic parsing...
... the range ofsyntactic pos- sibilities and the parser will align tone group and move syntactic boundaries at a later stage. By integrating syntax and semantics, the Parser is capable of resolving ... ical and structural ambiguities in spoken English. In this paper we present some results of employ- ing two types of prosodic information, namely pitch and pause, to assist syntacticandsemantic ... ration (of words, morphemes and pauses) and rhythm. While all of these are important cues, we are currently focussing on pitch and pauses as these are easily extracted from the waveform and offer...
... set of features: the article before; the POS before and after; the preposition before and after, and the syntactic category before and after the word be-ing labeled. The features used in both of ... Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve aDetailed SyntacticandSemantic Tagger of EnglishAndrew FinchNiCT∗-ATR†Kyoto, Japanandrew.finch@atr.jpEzra BlackEpimenides Corp.New York, ... EnglishTreebank. This consists of 518,080 words (ap-proximately 20 words per sentence, on average) of text annotated with a detailed semanticand syntac-tic tagset.To understand the nature of the task involvedin...
... 7–24.Syntax and Semantics with fMRI 363 Syntactic ViolationsTable I and Figs. 1 and 2 show that syntactic violations elicitedgreater activation than semantic anomalies in a number of regions of thesuperior ... underlie semantic memory more generally, bothin the encoding and retrieval of information, and in its long-term storage.358 Newman et al.An Event-Related fMRI Study ofSyntactic and Semantic ... compared blocks of spokensentences containing a mixture ofsyntactic (verb agreement) violations and well-formed sentences, and other blocks containing a mixture of semanticallyincongruous and congruous...
... and HitoshiIsahara. 2009. An error-driven word-character hybridmodel for jointChinese word segmentation and POStagging. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the47th Annual Meeting of ... com-bination of the features used in the state -of- the-art joint segmentation and POS tagging model (Zhang and Clark, 2010) and dependency parser (Huang and Sagae, 2010), both of which are used ... %) of SegTagDep on CTB-5c-1 w.r.t. the training epoch (x-axis) and parsing feature weights (in legend).tagging (Zhang and Clark, 2008; Zhang and Clark,2010) and dependency parsing (Huang and...
... individ-ual parsing models is the assigned cluster labels, and hence some of the cluster-based features. In a fu-ture work, we plan to take the union of all of thefeature sets and train a joint discriminative ... different syntactic or semantic cluster representations, each of which may lead to adifferent parsing model. We use ensemble learning(Dietterich, 2002) in order to combine a collection of diverse and ... the list of cluster-based feature templates. Theclusters inject long distance syntactic or semantic in-formation into the model (in contrast with the use of POS tags in the baseline) and help...
... A., and Navarro, D. (2009). Joint acquisition of word order and word refer-ence. In Proceedings of the 31th Annual Con-ference of the Cognitive Science Society.Pearl, L., Goldwater, S., and ... model of child syntactic- semantic acquisition by parsing unseen data.Models of child word learning have focusedon semantics only, learning word meanings fromutterances paired with either sets of ... procedure has two parts: logicalsplitting of the category semantics h; and syntac-tic splitting of the syntactic category X. Each logi-cal split of h is a pair of lambda expressions (f, g)in the...
... of pleasure: “cheerful”, “gay”, “glad”, “merry” and “pleased” in terms of grammar and semantics. Their grammatical features include syntactic functions and morphological features, and the semantics ... respect of semantics, “glad” and “pleased” have one of their senses of denoting the feeling of pleasure when something good has happened. “Cheerful” has one of three senses suggesting one of the ... people) and “gayness” (n) (denoting the state of being gay). 2.3. “Glad” 2.3.1. Grammatical features and semantics of “Glad” “Glad” has a number of the syntactic functions as head of an adjectival...
... module developed and implemented by Dorna and Emele (1996a). In the case ofsyntactic transfer, transfer is de- fined on term representations of f-structures. In the case ofsemantic transfer, ... (6) a. Oft kocht Hans gerne b. Hans kocht gerne oft c. Often Hans likes cooking d. Hans likes cooking often (6a) is ambiguous between (6c) and (6d), (6b) can only mean (6d). (6c) and (6d) ... Target and source levels of representation in transfer-based machine translation (MT) are subject to often competing demands: on the one hand, they need to abstract away from partic- ulars of...
... otherwise.(3)where s1a and s2b indicate the concatenation of the sequences s and t with the argument nodes, a and b, respectively and σ(h(a),h(b)) is 1 if thechildren of a and b are identical ... Efficiency of SRK and SSTKtain more than one PAS, we applied SRK or SSTKto all pairs P1× P2 and sum the obtained contri-bution, where P1 and P2are the set of PASs of thefirst and second ... of syntactic/ semantic structures for rela-tional learning from questions and answers. Wedesigned sequence kernels for words and Part of Speech Tags which capture basic lexical seman-tics and...